frapper à la porte
\fʁa.pe a la pɔʁt\
The verdict
“frapper à la porte” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Taper avec la main sur une porte pour faire entendre aux personnes qui sont à l’intérieur que l’on est présent à l’entrée, sur le seuil.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | frapper à la porte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fʁa.pe a la pɔʁt\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “frapper à la porte” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for frapper à la porte is 18 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fʁa.pe a la pɔʁt\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for frapper à la porte, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is frapper à la porte, spelled F-R-A-P-P-E-R- -À- -L-A- -P-O-R-T-E.
Definition
- 1Taper avec la main sur une porte pour faire entendre aux personnes qui sont à l’intérieur que l’on est présent à l’entrée, sur le seuil.
- 2Être près d’arriver, de se passer.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “frapper à la porte”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is F-R-A-P-P-E-R- -À- -L-A- -P-O-R-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \fʁa.pe a la pɔʁt\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.